Cox’s Bazar

Nepalese travellers urged to make holidays at Cox’s Bazar sea beach

State Minister for Civil Aviation Mahbub Ali urges Nepalese travelers to make their holidays at the world’s longest sea beach at Cox’s Bazar as Bangladesh’s coastline is the closest beach for the tourists of that landlocked country.
8 January 2020

Three ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘shootout’

Three alleged drug peddlers, including two Rohingyas, were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion in Cox’s Bazar yesterday and the day before, while another peddler was shot and injured while trying to flee from police in Lalmonirhat on Sunday.
22 April 2019

Two ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘gunfights’

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sirajganj, and another one in what police claimed was an encounter between two groups of drug peddlers in Cox’s Bazar, while, In Chapainawabganj, a body was recovered by police early yesterday.
20 April 2019

‘Drug trader’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with members of paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
14 March 2019

HC status quo on constructing structures at Laboni, Sugandha points in Cox’s Bazar

The High Court directs the authorities concerned to maintain status quo on constructing any structures at the ecologically critical Laboni and Sugandha points of Cox’s Bazar sea beach.
3 December 2018

Germany to provide 1.1m euro for dev project in Cox’s Bazar

Germany is to provide 1.1 million euro for implementation of Support to Community Stabilisation and Resilience project in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.
16 September 2018

IOM official found dead in Cox’s Bazar hotel

The body of an official of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN agency focused on migration, is recovered from a hotel in Cox’s Bazar district town.
27 July 2018

35 sued over Cox's Bazar Ansar camp attack

Thirty five unknown persons are sued in connection with the killing of an Ansar member who was gunned down allegedly by robbers inside Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
14 May 2016

Charges pressed against 19 Cox’s Bazar ‘war criminals’

Charges on twelve grounds have been pressed against 19 Cox’s Bazar men for allegedly committing crimes against humanity and genocide during 1971.
15 March 2016

2 criminals shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

Two people are shot dead in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila.
9 December 2015

Vessel movement resumes after Komen weakens

Bangladesh Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) resumed water vessel movement in all internal routes around 10:00am as cyclone Komen weakens, says Mozammel Haque, Chairman of BIWTA.
31 July 2015

1 drowns, 1 go missing in Cox’s Bazar

A teenager drowned and another man remained missing in the Bay in two separate incidents at Inani and Himchhari beach areas of Cox’s Bazar.
19 July 2015

Nayek Razzak returns, finally

Abducted BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak reaches Teknaf with the BGB delegation that went to Myanmar to bring him back.
25 June 2015

7 ‘wanted’ traffickers arrested in Teknaf

Seven “wanted” traffickers are arrested from Cox’s Bazar as police continue to crack down on the criminals behind human trafficking.
16 June 2015

Brothers held for ‘human trafficking’ in Teknaf

Police arrest two brothers for their alleged involvement with human trafficking in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
28 May 2015

5 ‘traffickers’ arrested in Cox’s Bazar

Law enforcers claim arrest of five human traffickers from Cox’s Bazar in purview of the worldwide concern over the illegal business.
27 May 2015

Man held over killing 3 daughters

Police arrest a man in the port city of Chittagong on charge of killing his three daughters in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar a few days ago.
18 May 2015

2.30 lakh yaba tablets seized in Teknaf

Border Guard Bangladesh seize 2.30 lakh yaba tablets in an abandoned condition from Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
7 April 2015

BGB man among 2 trampled by elephants

Wild elephants said to have trampled a Border Guard Bangladesh trooper and a woodcutter in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong in separate incidents.
2 April 2015

4 burnt in Cox’s Bazar firebomb attack

At least four passengers sustained burns as miscreants hurled petrol bomb at a bus on Cox's Bazar-Chittagong highway in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar
14 March 2015